Zombie Origin Trial
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An origin trial that was supposed to end — the trial period expired, the Intent to Ship was never filed, or the feature was abandoned — but whose code remains in the browser with the gate technically present and whose tokens continue to function because the Chrome team did not disable the trial server-side. Sites that built on the feature continue to work without support or stability guarantees, and the browser carries dead trial code that increases binary size and maintenance burden.